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To: crusty old prospector

That’ll come when the government goes after the tax exemptions for churches for not performing same sex weddingz.


4 posted on 12/13/2022 1:42:34 PM PST by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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To: Roccus

That’s exactly where this is going.


13 posted on 12/13/2022 1:50:06 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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The churches can give up being legal marriage providers and tell all people they need to go JP to get a civil marriage. The churches can perform religious weddings for heteros and deny doing them for gays as the churches won’t and can’t under federal and local laws provide the legal marriage certificates anymore. Kind of what they do in some places in Europe.

The Gays can’t complain because they can get a legal marriage anywhere and the churches can’t be forced to do religious wedding for gays if they don’t wish to.(since the churches won’t be into the “civil” law part of the business anymore.)

Tax exemptions might be challenged but since there are no legal services being provided to anyone related to marriage then there are no grounds to challenge a church’s tax exempt status.


88 posted on 12/14/2022 1:52:28 PM PST by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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To: Roccus

That’ll come when the government goes after the tax exemptions for churches for not performing same sex weddingz.

The good news is that isn't likely to happen. It's been 55 years since Virginia vs Loving effectively legalized interracial marriage on a federal level. As far as I know, not a single church has lost its tax exemptions for refusing to marry interracial couples. No church is under any obligation to provide marriage services that go against its tenets.

91 posted on 12/16/2022 6:03:49 PM PST by FormerFRLurker
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